How to Guide to Growing Vegetables

How To Guide Growing Vegetables

By: Noah, Ashlyn, Melanie , and Gabrielle

Goal

The goal of our project is to inform people on how to grow vegetables. We chose this how-to-guide to growing vegetables so people can know an easier and more accessible way to getting nutritious foods if they cannot go to a local supermarket to get these foods. We are hoping for our project to accomplish the problems and worries that people go through when trying to access the nutritious foods they need for their daily lives.

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Why this Project?

We surveyed our school body here at STMS. Our results convey in a reasonable 40% have seen our global scholars video on the morning news. More than half are worried about food waste. More than half are considering to change their actions and see why it is affecting the climate. Lastly, more than half are going to do something about this problem and find a solution.

Challenges

The challenges we faced during this project was finding the correct pictures because we had to visit multiple locations around our campus and visit our school garden and record the footage. One of our biggest problems was finding what digital tool we needed to use. Our final decision resulted in us using book create to create this project.

Project Impact

My hopes for the impact of this project is for people to have easier access to nutritious food. This is because if people don't have local supermarkets in their area it may be easier to grow your very own vegetable garden. We hope at least 70% of people benefit from our How-to. According to our survey, 45% of people chose that access to nutritious food is the most important food security issue. The How-to guide is our solution to this major problem by informing people on how to grow a vegetable garden.

Project Reflection

We had many successful and non-successful times with our project. One thing we should've done better was manage our time. We should've split up the work and set up the project differently so each of our group members can experiment with the work evenly. What we enjoyed about this project was going around and not only allowed to be taking the pictures but also being allowed to observe all the plants and at the same time, learn more ways to grow different vegetables. We learned many things including how to grow vegetables, different ways to grow vegetables, and the details on growing vegetables like planting dates, types soil, and sun exposure.

Intro

Growing vegetables is an important aspect to the environment and people's lives. The goal of growing vegetables is making people take growing vegetables into consideration and if these people do not have access to vegetables or nutritious foods in local supermarkets, then they can take easy action and plant their own vegetables right in their backyard! We hope this project will benefit people's ability to access these vegetables and foods in order to make it simple for different people to get the nutritious foods they need. The change that we would like to happen in society is that people would not have to worry about not being able to get the foods they need and how people are not getting to supermarkets to get these things. This is why growing vegetables is an easy and accessible way to grow healthy and nutritious foods.

1. Choose the right location

Choosing a location in order to grow vegetables is very important. Sun exposure is a number one need for the vegetables. In order for these vegetables to grow, they need at least 6 hours of sunlight daily. Some vegetables can grow directly in a garden and some do not. This is because of the seeds each vegetable has and how extinct they are from one another. Some vegetables have sensitive root-systems which are sometimes messed up in the process of transplanting. Some examples of vegetables that grow directly in a garden are carrots, peas, green beans, etc. Some examples of vegetables that do not grow directly in a garden are onions, cucumbers, pumpkins, etc.